By Paul Downs Founder of Paul Down Cabinetmakers originally posted on www.nytimes.com Pick any workday, and most weekends, between 1986 and the middle of 2013, and you probably could have found me at my desk, doing the work of trying to sign up new customers. That effort ate six or more hours of every day, […]
Originally posted on www.cabinetmakerfdm.com KCMA monthly Trend of Business Survey participating cabinet manufacturers reported sales totaling $5.6 billion. According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association’s monthly Trend of Business Survey, participating cabinet manufacturers reported sales totaling $5.6 billion for 2013, up 20.7 percent compared to total sales for 2012. Stock sales were up 26.2 percent; […]
Originally posted on www.woodworkingnetwork.com on 2-05-14 “There is blood in the snows of Sochi and the impunity of workers’ exploitation has to stop. The most expensive Games in history is also the deadliest for building workers.” This is the strong criticism the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) levelled to both the Russian government and […]
PARKERSBURG, W. VA. (January 2014) Woodcraft and its customers donated more than $6,000 in 2013 to support Fresh Wood, a student competition founded to encourage and support young woodworking designers and builders like Mollie Ferguson, a beginning furnituremaker who won two top Fresh Wood awards in July 2013. In April 2012 Woodcraft invited customers to […]
Originally posted by Bill Esler on February 3, 2014 Homag Group technology brands include Brandt, Holzma, Weeke, Bargstedt, Butfering, Ligmatech, and Homag, such as this Homag powerEdge for inclined edgebanding.SCHOPFLOCH, GERMANY – HOMAG Group says it has acquired full ownership of Stiles Machinery, effective Feb. 3, 2014. “This measure allows us to benefit directly from the […]
Originally post by Bill Esler on February 3, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC – Design and construction markets are expected to increase 5.8% in 2014, with hotel construction and build-outs of new retail establishments leading the expansion, says the American Institute of Architects. In AIA’s analysis of the semi-annual forecast, based on seven major construction forecasting groups, healthy […]
Originally Posted by Michaelle Bradford CHICAGO, IL — With Super Bowl XLVIII set for Sunday, Feb. 2, Chicago-based Urban Wood Goods, a reclaimed wood furniture manufacturer, nearly had a chance to be featured during the big game. Selected as a top 20 semi-finalists out of thousands of entrants in the Intuit Small Business Big Game […]
Originally posted by: Gene Wengert, wooddoc@uwalumni.com Q. It is very cold outside. What concerns do we have with this frigid weather in our plant? A: Let’s consider four aspects of cold weather on wood manufacturing: machining, gluing, finishing and movement. 1. Cold wood machines the same, from a practical point of view, as does warmer […]
By Scott Gerber Originally posted on January 27, 2014 From the decline of Facebook use among teens to Twitter’s IPO, if there is one thing we know for sure about social media, it’s that few trends hold on for long — so marketers need to stay on their toes. With that in mind, we asked […]
By Paul Downs: Originally Posted on January 27, 2014 The struggles of a business trying to survive. At the beginning of last year, I started using a new technique to analyze my numbers: the trailing sum or average. In a nutshell, you track a set of numbers looking back from the present, at regular intervals, […]
